AVEN DIGEST - July 15, 2008

[Hallucigenia]

AVEN Digest for the slightly-more-than-a-week of July 8 - 15, 2008

This Digest is a day late because Hallu was away.

Activism and Visibility

We are putting together a team to help advise the DSM-V committee to change the definition of Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder so that it no longer lists asexual people as pathological. We need the help of any aVEN members who are working or studying in psychiatry, psychology, or a similar field.

http://www.asexuality.org/en/index.php?showtopic=32843

Following the success of the Christopher Street Day festival in Berlin, Xaida is bringing her asexuality booth to the Berliner gay-lesbian Park festival for the first time. She has requested financial support.

http://www.asexuality.org/en/index.php?showtopic=32834

Media

The character Gerald on the New Zealand soap opera "Shortland Street", long suspected by viewers of being asexual, is beginning to explore his possible asexuality. !

http://www.asexuality.org/en/index.php?showtopic=30413

The relevant episode should be viewable for a short time at:

http://www.tvnz.co.nz/

A reporter from FOX News woiuld like to speak to an asexual in Chicago.

http://www.asexuality.org/en/index.php?showtopic=32777

Here is a Norwegian radio program from 2002 talking about single-by-choice women in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

http://www.nrk.no/programmer/radioarkiv/sa...et/1557400.html

Internet

Here is a new forum for asexuals who want to hang out and get to know each other: Ace Linkup!

http://forum.acelinkup.com/index.php

And here's the second installment of David Jay's interview with Carol Queen, an icon of the sex-positive movement.

http://asexualunderground.blogspot.com/200...een-part-2.html

Site Stuff

A member has suggested that there should be a section of AVEN to discuss health, fitness, and physical well-being.

http://www.asexuality.org/en/index.php?showtopic=19408